Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-10-19
LOCAL NE w o.
Brief Mention.

Japanese napkins at Dorman's
The Supreme Court of Errors will convene
in Bridgeport next Tuesday.
The Hartford board of police commission
ers have accepted an invitation to attend the
parade of the Providanes police force to-
day.
The reunion Of the surviving members Of
the First Connecticut heavy artillery takes
place in Hartford To-day at No. 195 Main
street.
John Lines, who was hurt several weeks
ago by horse car in Ansonia and taken to
New Haven for treatment, is rapidly i'm
proving.
. Mrs Susannah Smith died at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Sanford of
Bridgeport, yesterday, in the ninetieth year
of her age.
Five hundred and sixty-four shares OF the
stock OF the Naugatuck Water company are
already subscribed, and there is plenty of
the stock left.
A Bridgeport two-year old youngster is
worth twenty-five cents at least. He swal-
lowed quarter the other day and has had
no bad effects from it yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Alling, now of Tor
rington and formerly of New Haven, will
open school for teaching shorth and. and
typewriting in Winsted shortly. =
Chestnuts have not been very plenty this
fall despite the abundant promise. OF wal
nuts there is about an average crop. Both
bring fair prices in the market.
The New Haven county Sunday School
Superintendents' union will be in session at
the Methodist church in Ansonia to-day.
The morning session will commence at 1890
o'clock.
The contract for erecting the monument on
the Israel Putnam camp ground In Redding,
authorized by the Connecticut legislature of
1887, has been awarded to P W. Bates, of
Norwalk
Legrand Osborne. father of John Osborne,
died in Naugstuck yesterday morning, aged
sixty years. The funeral will be attended
tomorrow afternoon, the burial being in
Millyille.
On Monday evening there was reunion
at the, Rockville NJ. e. church, following
the jubilee services ON Sunday, which were
in honor of the cancelling of the church
The Bridgepors Adventists passed around
the hat on Sunday and raised 81, 500 toward
building themselves new church. They
are thinking of calling the Rev. Mr.. Davis,
of Waterbury, to be their pastor.
Mr.. N w. Hinckley, of this city, enters
Queen Ray, and j. H. Lewis, of Stratford,
Maude and Purdy, for the $40 trot at Bridge
port to-day, purse 5000. Bridgeport and
Naugatuck horses will also contest.
The fourteenth annual convention of the
Connecticut Woman's Temperance union
will open this afternoon in the Washington
Park M. E. church, Bridgeport, and continue
through Thursday and Friday. The exer-
cises will be very interesting.
Nathan Hale camp, s. of ", mustered in
one more recruit last evening and more are
coming.in. The camps entertainment will
take place November l.. The charter for
the Ladies' Aid society closed last evening
with thirty names upon it. An important
special meeting will be held tomorrow even
ing.
]. B. Sargent, the New Haven manufac-
turer, has been away six months and does
not expect to return until October of next
year. He has been making quite stay in
Japan. While there he received large
order for trimmings for the Mikado's new
palace through one of the chief dignitaries of
the empire.
DR.. Lawrence Cremin of New Britain,
brother of DR.. Cremin of this city, will be
Hmarried at $50 this morning to Miss
Lucy Conran, in Naugatuck. Miss Daisy
Balch, one of Hartford's prettiest young
ladies, will be bridesmaid, having been a
classmate with the bride in the last class to
graduate from st. Margaret's, Waterbury.
DR.. Dennis J. Curtin, of Waterbury, will be
Qroomsmau.